I don't know what the requirements are, but I have a lot of respect for them. I've been on other boards where moderators were identified as such and you never saw so much suck up in your life. Good grief...they're just people!
BTW, I don't believe CU is a conservative site.
I agree with you. They're not a conservative website. I think it's mostly just a clique of people who got together to pretend they're more open minded that everybody else when, as we have seen, they are not. The moderating is pretty much like the DUmp. BAN, LOCK, DELETE. They want everyone to go away so they can go back to pretending. Less work for them.